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[August 10, 2017]

MapD and Huawei Sign MoU to Accelerate Analytics with GPUs

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --�The leading ICT solution provider Huawei and GPU-powered analytics leader MapD Technologies today announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to accelerate the application of GPU-powered data analytics at scale. The partnership will enhance compatibility and interconnection between Huawei's FusionServer hardware and the MapD analytics platform, enabling organizations to search and visualize billions of rows of data in milliseconds.

Under the terms of the agreement, both parties will commit engineering resources to a joint R&D initiative that will not only improve software and hardware integration, but also increase support for and connection to third-party applications. The teams will create demo environments at Huawei's headquarters and OpenLab for enterprise solutions, where customers can road-test the solution with their own data.

According to the MoU, Huawei can sell MapD products across the globe and MapD will join Huawei's solution partnership plan. Huawei is implementing the MapD Core database and MapD Immerse visual analytics client internally on the FusionServer G5500. The G5500 is a heterogeneous server that can be used to build a supercomputing cluster composed of up to 32 GPUs.

"This partnership with Huawei will ensure complete compatibility with FusionServer G5500, delivering lightning-fast analytics and stronger support for our customers," said Todd Mostak, CEO of MapD Technologies. "The sheer scale of many organizations means they create enormous volumes of data in their daily operations, which they then need to analyze. As MapD's partner, Huawei can now provide a linearly scalable analytics platform which runs natively on their hardware."

Qiu Long, President, IT Server Product Line, Huawei, said, "We are seeing stronger and stronger demand for real-time data queries, analysis and visualization of hundreds of billions or trillions of rows of machine-genrated logs. Achieving ad-hoc data analytics at this scale in real-time is extremely challenging. We believe that GPU acceleration will play a pivotal role in the future of analytics and are excited to work with MapD to deploy its cutting-edge technologies to address these challenges."

About HuaweiHuawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Our aim is to enrich life and improve efficiency through a better connected world, acting as a responsible corporate citizen, innovative enabler for the information society, and collaborative contributor to the industry. Driven by customer-centric innovation and open partnerships, Huawei has established an end-to-end ICT solutions portfolio that gives customers competitive advantages in telecom and enterprise networks, devices and cloud computing. Huawei's 180,000 employees worldwide are committed to creating maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers. Our innovative ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world's population. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.

About MapD TechnologiesMapD Technologies is a next-generation analytics software company. Its technology harnesses the massive parallelism of modern graphics processing units (GPUs) to power lightning-fast SQL queries and visualization of large data sets. The MapD analytics platform includes the MapD Core database and MapD Immerse visualization client. These software products provide analysts and data scientists with the fastest time to insight, performance not possible with traditional CPU-based solutions. MapD software runs on-premise and on all leading cloud providers.

Founded in 2013, MapD Technologies originated from research at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). MapD is funded by GV, In-Q-Tel, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), NVIDIA, Vanedge Capital and Verizon Ventures. The company is headquartered in San Francisco.